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Ireland v. United Kingdom (Request for Revision of Judgment of 18 January 1978)

European Court of Human Rights.  20 March 2018 .

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

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Abstract

International tribunals — European Court of Human Rights — Jurisdiction — Finality of judgments — Principle of legal certainty — Article 44 of European Convention on Human Rights, 1950 — Revision — Exceptional procedure — Rule 80(1) of Rules of Court — Whether revision request submitted within six-month time limit — Scope of revision request — Whether revision request permissible — Whether documents submitted by applicant Government disclosing new facts — Whether any new facts of decisive influence on findings in original judgment — Whether new facts unknown to Court when original judgment delivered — Whether new facts could not reasonably have been known to applicant Government requesting revision — Whether original judgment requiring revision to include finding of practice of torture as well as inhuman and degrading treatment

Human rights — Prohibition on torture and inhuman and degrading treatment — Interrogation techniques — Whether constituting practice of inhuman and degrading treatment — Whether constituting practice of torture — Commission establishing facts of case — Commission unanimous opinion that practice constituting inhuman and degrading treatment and torture — Original judgment finding practice of inhuman and degrading treatment only — Documentation later coming to knowledge of applicant Government — Medical evidence — Non-disclosure evidence — Whether documentation might have decisively influenced original judgment — Whether original judgment requiring revision to include finding of practice of torture also — Article 3 of European Convention on Human Rights, 1950

Evidence before international courts and tribunals — European Court of Human Rights — Rule 80(1) of Rules of Court — Applicant Government requesting revision of original judgment — Documents from archives — Medical evidence — Non-disclosure evidence — Applicant Government claiming documents demonstrating new facts — Whether new facts of decisive influence — Whether new facts unknown to Court at time of original judgment — Whether new facts could reasonably have been known to applicant Government — Revision — Exceptional procedure — Principle of legal certainty — Whether documents submitted in support of revision request providing sufficient prima facie evidence in support of applicant Government’s version of events

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© Cambridge University Press 2019

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